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LONDON. A SUMMER RESORT. AMERICAN TOURISTS' VIEWS.
[By "DAILY TELEGRAPH
DENT. 1
COLDESPON
THE SILENT MAN.
A HUMAN STORY, WELL, TOLD.
G.M.S. IN TUN MANCHESTE
DEARDIAN."]
An old woman had tramped across the moors to pay a surprise visit to her son and his wife. She found him sitting alone in an untidy kitchen, staring for only at a length of rope.
Why, save us, what's this, William " “I'm finished, and "that's what it is," mother."
What's come over the man to talk. and if you are anyways ill, why isn't Lucy here by your side to comfort
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This alert, genial veteran, who is in his Sith years a living advertisement of the merits of London A asuminer resort. The most loyal Londoner rauhl
Lawks & mercy ! Speak more not champion the salubrity of his he loved eity more doughtily Many a jadeil
lone, dweller in our midst who has been long, laiu, son, and let's see if aught can be "It's too late now. By rights I should ing for the inevitably pponed holiday
had he listen have said my say when first these capers would have been hearten ed to the experiences of ais trim, well began, bu: I'm that fond of her I can't preserved old gentleman. For the Locross her will. It all started a few weeks don from which the vast majority of its agone when she did buy shoes with heels, residents has eagerly escaped, or is about so high that she'd sprawl about the floor HAMBURG AMERIKA LINIE.
"She's gone to chapel, and she thinks o more of me than if was u emmet The mother sat down abruptly. I crawling in her. ith." can't get the rights of this, for when I was last here you' seemed as happy na two becs on one stem-what's happened at all, that you should bide at home while she goes forth alour?"
Pir most ashamed to be seen abroad in her company and that's, how it is."
when she practised in em. Then she to escape, for the joys of seaside or not. tait air, has for many years past--with took and slashed up all her frocks, and occasional intervals, such as the period when her arms and neck showed red she, of the war-been the deliberately chosen
the redness. Soon after that," she shear- spot in which Mr. Hyde has spent his scenty, white powder for to hide summers. During his visits he has listened off her soft, hbrown hair and clipped ed to orations by many of our great it close at the neck, like the Folk have statesmen. and trensures his recollections it in the picture books. And yester even of such giants as Uisraeli and Gladstone.
ing when I came back from work I much "I think London has the finest summer as ever knew her. She's been into town climate in the world," he said, reminis and bought a thing from off the chemist cently, gazing over the docks and the to fade the colour of her hair from brown It to whiter-yellow, 'you'd only come a shipping in Southampton Water. suits mr, in the summer, better than that hit earlier you'd have seen her mincing This will be my out on her stilts of shoes, with the dust" of any other place. seventy-eighth trip across the Atlantic, of face-powder speckling her gown and and in the past five years I have maden hat nodding this way and that atop of twenty-two. I came over for the first her round head with every step she took. time in 1864, in the Arabia, the Instit shames me to think on her, and I've wooden, steamer of the Cunard line. gone that droppy I had it in mind to remember going through the Thames cetumit suicide on myself". Tunnel that rear. Essentially, things scem much the same as on my first visit. but there is always something new for me to set. I used to make two voyages a year-one each way-but now I make four. I spend nine months of the year in New York, but at the end of May I go to London, and, with the exception of a Visit to New York during the summer, just to collect my nail and see to my affairs, I stay there until the end of 'August.
NEVER TIRED OF LONDON
No one with the wit of a fall-brain- ed man should talk so slight," cried to. mother indignantly. If you had any guts at all you'd burn all her fal-dals! and behave so that she'd come creeping to your knee to seek forgiveness. Hare you spoke your mind freely to her, how that you feel shame because of her capers!"-
Not in so many words, because I'or terrible fond of her."
Then you should, William, for a few words in season will save fretfulness."
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Then, with inspiration, he Such fanciful rigs will do well enough for them that needs titivating, but for you-you, well, you'll do as you are."
She laughed happily. “And do you Soon his wife cama, slowly over the felds. She tried to open the door, and up and praise me to my face more often a deal of when she could not she leant against it. Willium. for it's like hangy to me, and then I'll have no cause to smarten 05- calling shrilly.
For the slim, The husband at this pat his head out self with these torments. The mother began to tidy the kitchen I remain in London most of the time
"It's of the window and said, Hullo-who high shoes they served my feet cruel. the dry old powder on my face tickled -I am a city man ansl 1 like the city. noisily, and presently she said: Whereas in New York, in summer, it is quite easy for you to cure your Lucy of comes clattering upon my door so!"
Why me to be sure Lucy; so baste me nigh crazed; my scalp felt tight, lika as hot at night as it is in the day-time, thee sillines, and this is how you must
change the colour with, and my fine with you there is a great change from the set about it. After I've agone make fast the and open, to me, for I'm most dead from a drums from the old stuff I did use to The husband cleared his thront and alouts only brought me mockery from the hottest part of the day to the coolness door and the windows; and then do you tiredness." of the night. No matter how bot it is go up byer saira to keep watch for
She took off one of the high-heeled in the day-time, it is always cool at night her coming. First she'll set hand on the answered loudly; Go away from here, boys over along at the village." For a great many years I have spent the latch and then she'll clatter upon the woman-you're no wife of mine. summer in England, and I have never door, and then you must poke your head musik, that's buried, was a rose for shoes and held out her foot for admira slept without a blanket over me. When out from the window and ask het plea-sweetness, but there's a false stench of tion, but the husband, feeling that ho I go back to New York I immediately sure in a polite sort of a voice--just scent arising from you; and your face had done his duty, sat down yawning," buy my four tickets for the next year's as if she was one of them big-eyed looks pasty with flour and your hair ́is į
visitors that come staring in the summer-liike that of a long dead corpus Go away trips. I never get tired of London."
Mr. Hyde was admitted to the Ameri. time. And she'll cry out, laughing, that from here, I say, to where you belong
Then you must stecto.'
William-William, Easte and let me can Bar in 1863, practised law for twenty. it's alw herself. three years, and then became vice-presi- your heart, saying that you once did
"I' do. no such thing." because I died, and then you must rail out upan dent of a trust company in New York have a nice, quidt wife who took and in," cried the frightened wife, He retired from business nearly six years
Then she'll think that her husband; and be shaft the window and ngo. He has frequently been a delegate Lucy, miscelling her this and that from don't know you from Adam," said the to religious conferences in this country, the Bible."
"Feel better do you, husband?"id and is president of the American Bible rigs have driven you crazed; her tears went down at once to open the door.
And when the wife as she stood in the kitchen rub- Society, which is affiliated to the British Will dow like rivers to wash channels in and Foreign Bible Society. He is the powder against her, nose,
she's enough cast down in spirit, do you bing away the powder from her face.
"Aye, T'am better now that I can see atrong supporter of Prohibition.
then uprise and go, open, the door wide and trim your words so that she'll know the beauty of you all free from the dust for certain sure that a true man's love of powder," said he, remembering his
Amountain of face- of hair-dro, or
ach more to a woman than an ocean powder."
(Continued on next Column),
Hant,
In contrasting gloom was one Ameri "My impressions are not very plea he said, dolefully. "I have been here a month, and the only friendly people I have seen have been the child, of ren. I could make friends with any them, in the streets and museuns, but got the cold shoulder from every adult"
he visited this Remarking that
country once or twice a year and had business relations "here, "this gentleman said he considers that this unfriendly spirit" has increased since the war, and even alleges that the theatres seem to discriminate against Anericans,” in- stancing a particular revue, and contend- ing that the applause which greeted skit on certain American methods "did not sound good to American ears"
Mr. E. A Miller. a New York business man, frankly admitted a marked prefer ence for England on grounds of sentiment and for touring purposes, putting France, next. I think Americans are getting to like England much more than ever before. In regard to hotels, travel, and other matters, the amenitics have greatly im proved in the last four of five years. Not a fow Americans who had thoroughly rajoyed tours through France, Switzer land, Italy, Germany, Holland, Belgium, and this country were expressing the wish that their programme had allowed a longer stay in this country.
Dean Carlisle, of Montreal, had gained at least one very favourable impression after a two years absence from England. I was told that England was getting. irreligious," he said, "but what struck me was the large congregations in all the churches we attended, both in Lon don and in the country. An American clergyman, on the other hand, deplored what be termed, the modern standard of independence and lack of respect of older people evident amonget the young, which he said was also, so noticeable in the United States. Another social change noted by a, vizitor frem Canada was the disappearance of beggars, in large mea- zure, from the Landon streets, a -An increasing number of Americans bound for the Middle West appear to be travelling-by-the Canadian route, largely, no doubt, because of the attractions of a tail up the EL. Lawrence.
mother's instruction.
Thers-if you'd only said that afore I'd not have tried to improve upon my self," she cried.
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